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ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS & RECOVERY V. 1-9 HEZEKIAH’S LIFE IS RESTORED AND HE IS GRATEFUL V. 10-22. READ: ISAIAH 38:1-3. HEZEKIAH'S LIFE EXTENDED (2 KINGS 20:1-11 2 CHRONICLES 32:24-26)

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ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

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  1. ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

  2. OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS & RECOVERY V. 1-9 HEZEKIAH’S LIFE IS RESTORED AND HE IS GRATEFUL V. 10-22

  3. READ: ISAIAH 38:1-3 HEZEKIAH'S LIFE EXTENDED (2 KINGS 20:1-11 2 CHRONICLES 32:24-26) 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

  4. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 HEZEKIAH'S LIFE EXTENDED (2 KINGS 20:1-11 2 CHRONICLES 32:24-26) 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. WHY DID ISAIAH COME TO HEZEKIAH? WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE FROM THE LORD? HOW DID HEZEKIAH RESPOND TO THIS?

  5. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" WHY DID ISAIAH COME TO HEZEKIAH? READ: 2 KINGS 20:1 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.'" NKJV WHAT WAS HEZEKIAH’S ILLNESS? HE WAS COVERED WITH BOILS READ: ISAIAH 38:21 21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."

  6. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE FROM THE LORD? WHY WAS HEZEKIAH GOING TO DIE? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABIMELECH? READ: GENESIS 20:3 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife." NKJV

  7. WHY DID ELISHA GO TO SEE BEN-HADAD? READ: 2 KINGS 8:7-12 7 Then Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here.“ 8 And the king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?'“ 9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?'" 10 And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover.' However the LORD has shown me that he will really die.“ 11 Then he set his countenance in a stare until he was ashamed; and the man of God wept. 12 And Hazael said, "Why is my lord weeping?“ He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child." NKJV

  8. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" WHY WAS HEZEKIAH GOING TO DIE? DID HEZEKIAH DO ANY WRONG? READ: 2 KINGS 18:13-15 13 And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay." And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house. NKJV

  9. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. HOW DID HEZEKIAH RESPOND TO THIS? WHAT KING OF PERSON WAS HEZEKIAH? DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD READ: 2 KINGS 18:1-3 1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.

  10. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THESE PEOPLE? ‘THEY WALKED WITH GOD’ READ: GENESIS 5:24 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. NKJV READ: GENESIS 6:9 9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

  11. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABRAM? ‘WALK BEFORE ME AND BE BLAMELESS’ READ: GENESIS 17:1 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. NKJV

  12. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO SOLOMON? ‘WALK BEFORE ME AS YOUR FATHER DAVID WALKED’ READ: 1 KINGS 9:4-5 4 Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.‘ NKJV ‘THEY HAVE NOT WALKED IN MY WAYS’ READ: 1 KINGS 11:33 33 Because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David. NKJV

  13. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? HOW DOES ONE WALK WITH THE LORD? ‘DO WHAT IS RIGHT & GOOD’ READ: DEUTERONOMY 6:18 18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers, ‘FEAR THE LORD & SERVE HIM’ READ: DEUTERONOMY 10:20 20 You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. NKJV

  14. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? HOW DOES ONE WALK WITH THE LORD? ‘LET YOUR HEART BE LOYAL TO THE LORD’ ‘WALK IN HIS STATUTES’ READ: 1 KINGS 8:61 61 Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day." WHAT DID DAVID ASK THE LORD? ‘GIVE MY SON SOLOMON A LOYAL HEART’ READ: 1 CHRONICLES 29:19 19 And give my son Solomon a loyal heart to keep Your commandments and Your testimonies and Your statutes, to do all these things, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.“ NKJV

  15. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? HOW DID DAVID WALK BEFORE THE LORD? ‘I HAVE WALKED IN MY INTEGRITY’ ‘I HAVE WALKED IN YOUR TRUTH’ READ: PSALMS 26:1-3 1 Vindicate me, O LORD, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the LORD; I shall not slip. 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. 3 For Your loving-kindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth. NKJV

  16. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. DID HEZEKIAH WALK WITH THE LORD? HOW DID DANIEL MAINTAIN HIS INTEGRITY? ‘HE PRAYED TO THE LORD DAILY’ READ: DANIEL 6:10 10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.

  17. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:1-3 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. READ: 2 KINGS 20:2-3 2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. NKJV HOW DID HEZEKIAH RESPOND TO THIS? ‘I HAVE WALKED BEFORE YOU IN TRUTH AND WITH A LOYAL HEART’ ‘I HAVE DONE WHAT IS GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT’

  18. READ: ISAIAH 38:4-6 4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. 6 I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city."‘

  19. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:4-6 4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. 6 I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city."‘ READ: 2 KINGS 20:4-6 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David."'“ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HEZEKIAH?

  20. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:4-6 READ: 2 KINGS 20:4-5 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. WHEN DID GOD RESPOND TO HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HEZEKIAH? ‘SURELY I WILL HEAL YOU’ HOW SOON DOES THE LORD RESPOND TO PRAYER? ‘BEFORE YOU CALL, I WILL ANSWER’ READ: ISAIAH 65:24 24 "It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear. NKJV

  21. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:4-6 HOW SOON DID THE LORD RESPOND TO DANIEL’S PRAYER? ‘WHILE I WAS SPEAKING IN PRAYER’ READ: DANIEL 9:20-21 20 Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God, 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. WHY DID THE LORD RESPOND SO QUICKLY? ‘YOU ARE GREATLY BELOVED’ READ: DANIEL 9:22-23 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. 23 At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision: NKJV

  22. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:4-6 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. 6 I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city."‘ WHY WILL THE LORD DEFEND JERUSALEM? ‘FOR MY OWN SAKE & MY SERVANT DAVID’S SAKE’ READ: 2 KINGS 20:6 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David."'" NKJV READ: ISAIAH 37:35 35 'For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'" NKJV

  23. READ: ISAIAH 38:7-8 7 And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken: 8 Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.

  24. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:7-8 7 And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken: 8 Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down. WHY DID THE LORD GIVE HEZEKIAH A SIGN? READ: 2 KINGS 20:8-11 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?" 9 Then Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?" 10 And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees." 11 So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz. NKJV

  25. WHAT DID JOSHUA DO? 8 Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down. WHAT SIGN DID THE LORD GIVE HEZEKIAH? WHAT WAS THE EFFECT OF MOVING IT BACKWARD? WHAT SIGN DID JOSHUA GIVE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL? ‘THE SUN STOOD STILL & THE MOON STOPPED’ READ: JOSHUA 10:12-14 12 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon." 13 So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 14 And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

  26. READ: ISAIAH 38:9-11 9 This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: 10 I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.“ 11 I said, "I shall not see YAH, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

  27. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:9-11 9 This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: 10 I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.“ 11 I said, "I shall not see YAH, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world. WHEN DID HEZEKIAH WRITE THESE WORDS? AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS WHAT WAS HEZEKIAH’S CONCERN ABOUT DYING? ‘DYING IN THE PRIME OF LIFE’ ‘NOT SEEING YAH IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING?’

  28. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:9-11 10 I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.“ WHAT WAS HEZEKIAH’S CONCERN ABOUT DYING? DYING IN THE PRIME OF LIFE? WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT DEATH? MAN’S LIFE IS BUT A VAPOR READ: PSALMS 39:5 5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. NKJV DO NOT TAKE ME IN THE MIDST OF MY DAYS READ: PSALMS 102:24 24 I said, "O my God, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all generations. NKJV

  29. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:9-11 10 I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.“ WHAT WAS HEZEKIAH’S CONCERN ABOUT DYING? DYING IN THE PRIME OF LIFE? WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT DEATH? ‘I WILL SEE YOUR FACE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS’ AND ‘I SHALL AWAKE IN YOUR LIKENESS’ READ: PSALMS 17:15 15 As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness. NKJV

  30. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:9-11 11 I said, "I shall not see YAH, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world. WHAT WAS HEZEKIAH’S CONCERN ABOUT DYING? ‘I WILL NOT SEE YAH IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING’ WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LAND OF THE LIVING? I WOULD SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD READ: PSALMS 27:13 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. NKJV I WILL WALK BEFORE THE LORD READ: PSALMS 116:8-9 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORDIn the land of the living. NKJV

  31. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:9-11 11 I said, "I shall not see YAH, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world. WHAT WAS DAVID’S MESSAGE TO THE LIVING? READ: PSALMS 34:11-14 11 Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 Who is the man who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it. NKJV

  32. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:9-11 10 I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.“ WHAT WAS HEZEKIAH’S CONCERN ABOUT DYING? ‘DYING IN THE PRIME OF LIFE’ WHAT DID PAUL WRITE CONCERNING DEATH? WE SHOULD TRUST IN GOD WHO RAISES THE DEAD READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 1:9-11 9 Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us, NKJV

  33. READ: ISAIAH 38:12-14 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!

  34. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 HEZEKIAH'S LIFE EXTENDED 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me! WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? ‘MY LIFE SPAN IS GONE’ ‘YOU MAKE AN END OF ME’ ‘I MOURN & I AM OPPRESSED’ ‘MY EYES FAIL TO LOOK UPWARD’

  35. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 7:6-9 6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good. 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more; While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be. 9 As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up. NKJV

  36. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? ‘MY LIFE SPAN IS GONE; ‘YOU MAKE AN END OF ME’ WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 4:17-21 17 'Cana mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker? 18 If He puts no trust in His servants, If He charges His angels with error, 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth? 20 They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They perish forever, with no one regarding. 21 Does not their own excellence go away? They die, even without wisdom.' NKJV

  37. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? ‘MY LIFE SPAN IS GONE’ ‘YOU MAKE AN END OF ME’ WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: PSALMS 32:1-4 1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. NKJV

  38. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? ‘MY LIFE SPAN IS GONE’ ‘YOU MAKE AN END OF ME’ WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT LIFE & DEATH? READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1-5 1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

  39. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 12 My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? ‘MY LIFE SPAN IS GONE’ ‘YOU MAKE AN END OF ME’ WHAT DID PETER SAY ABOUT LIFE & DEATH? READ: 2 PETER 1:12-15 12 For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. 13 Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, 14 knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. 15 Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease. NKJV

  40. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me! WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? LIKE A LION – HE BREAKS ALL MY BONES FROM DAY UNTIL NIGHT YOU MAKE AN END OF ME WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 7:4 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, And the night be ended?‘ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn. NKJV

  41. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 3:24-26 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water. 25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me. 26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes." NKJV

  42. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 9:14-20 14 "How then can I answer Him, And choose my words to reason with Him? 15 For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge. 16 If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice. 17 For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause. 18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness. 19 If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; And if of justice, who will appoint my day in court? 20 Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse. NKJV

  43. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 10:14-17 14 If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity. 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my misery! 16 If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me. 17 You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me. NKJV

  44. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: PSALMS 32:3-4 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. NKJV READ: PSALMS 37:7-8 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret — it only causes harm. NKJV

  45. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 13 I have considered until morning — Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: PSALMS 38:9-10 9 Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You. 10 My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me. NKJV READ: PSALMS 51:7-9 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice. 9 Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. NKJV

  46. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me! WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? MY EYES FAIL TO LOOK UPWARD – I AM OPPRESSED WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: PSALMS 6:6-7 6 I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. 7 My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies. NKJV

  47. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:12-14 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me! WHAT DID HEZEKIAH SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? MY EYES FAIL TO LOOK UPWARD – I AM OPPRESSED WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT HIS LIFE? READ: JOB 17:1-5 1 "My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. 2 Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation? 3 "Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me? 4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; Therefore You will not exalt them. 5 He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail. NKJV

  48. READ: ISAIAH 38:15-17 15 "What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitterness of my soul. 16 O Lord, by these things men live; And in all these things is the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live. 17 Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

  49. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 38:15-17 15 "What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitterness of my soul. 16 O Lord, by these things men live; And in all these things is the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live. 17 Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HEZEKIAH? HOW DID HE RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE? BY WHAT THINGS DO MEN LIVE? WHAT DID HE SAY CONCERNING HIS DELIVERANCE?

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